Nope, Hitler did that with Belgium. Putin is simply following within the footsteps of his hero.
From 1944, the SS and Nazi Celebration gained a lot better management in Belgium, significantly after the army authorities was changed in July by a Nazi civil administration, the Reichskommissariat Belgien-Nordfrankreich. In September 1944, Allied forces arrived in Belgium and shortly moved throughout the nation. That December, the territory was integrated de jure into the Higher German Reich though its collaborationist leaders had been already in exile in Germany and German management within the area was just about non-existent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Belgium_during_World_War_II